Grossularia hirtella

Grossularia hirtella (Michx.) Spach, Hist. Veg. 6 : 180. 1838
Ribes hirtellum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 111. 1803.
Ribes saxosum Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 231. 1832.
Ribes oxyacanthoides saxosum Coville, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 4: 100. 1893. (As to name.)
Ribes huronense Rydb.; Britton, Man. 487. 1901. •
Ribes oxyacanthoides calcicola Fernald, Rhodora 7 : 155. 1905.
A shrub 6-12 dm. high, with slender, mostly esetose branches, but sometimes bristly ; bark of the older branches dark-brown, the young shoots gray and glabrous ; nodal spines usually wanting, if present subulate, 12 mm. long or less. I^eaves ovate-orbicular to reniform-orbicular in outline, incisely 3-5-lobed and dentate, mostly cuneate at the base, varying to subcordate, thin, 2-6 cm. wide, glabrous or sparingly pubescent, not glandular, the slender petioles often bearing long hairs; peduncles 1-3-flowered, not longer than the petioles ; bracts only about 1.5 mm. long, much shorter than the pedicels; ovary glabrous, rarely pubescent or with stalked glands ; hypanthium greenish, narrowly campanulate, glabrous or sparingly villous, about 3 mm. long, equaling or a little shorter than the green or purplish sepals ; petals obovate, about half as long as the stamens ; style villous ; berry glabrous, or rarely with stalked glands, purple or black, globose, 8-10 mm. in diameter.
Type locality : Saguenay River {Quebec).
Distribution : Newfoundland to New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, ^uth Dakota, and Manitoba.